It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
FRANCIS BACONHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
More Francis Bacon Quotes
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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It is impossible to love and be wise.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake.
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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
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